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Who did you see before they were famous??
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#50re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 3:35pmSara Kramer (Mamma Mia) went to my friends high school, and I saw her in The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy.
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ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#51re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 3:41pm
Ashley Brown on tour with "Disney’s On the Record"
What is more depressing is the people I had an opportunity to see, but passed on.
Sutton Foster
Hunter Foster
Erin Dilly
Celia Keenan-Bolger
Marin Mazzie
Millie Lammoreaux
Featured Actor Joined: 7/3/05
#52re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 3:57pm
Christine Baransky, John Mahoney, Patricia Clarkson and a chubby, 19-year-old Ben Stiller in “House of Blue Leaves” (1986).
Also in the cast were already-known Swoozy Kurtz and Danny Aiello.
Fourth row, center: So close, Ben spit on me, not once but twice!
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#53re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:18pm
Roger Bart in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Tour as Bud Frump
Norbert Leo Butz in Cabaret tour and on Broadway as Roger in RENT
Ashley Brown on tour with "Disney’s On the Record"
Hunter and Sutton Foster in a regional production of Evita
Nathan Lane in Merlin
#54re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:27pmI was Alec Mapa's classmate in Jr. High School. He ended up as the lead on Broadway for M. Butterfly in the late 90's. Now, he's been in sitcoms and in various TV shows and movies.
#55re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:54pmI have seen John Lolyd Young in the Chosen and the Drawer Boy, Laura Benanti in Man of LaMancha and Jane Eyre, Kristin Chenoweth in Animal Crackers, and Max von Essen in My Fair Lady....I probably have seen more I just can't think of them off the top of my head...I live very close to the PaperMill Playhouse where I have seen all these wonderful broadway people...My Aunt has been buying season tickets ever since I can remember so I have seen every show in that theater since 1992
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#56re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:02pm
I see the term 'famous' is being used in its broadest sense. My personal favorite was seeing an absolutely adorable unknown Mark Ruffalo in THIS IS OUR YOUTH. You should have heard the gasp a couple hundred New Yorkers emitted as he knocked over paper plate with a heaping mounting of cocaine on it. I'm surprised we didn't bum rush the stage and snort the air!
besty...an old college friend performed w/ Ms. Mazzie at a theatre in Michigan back in the day as well and adored her.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#57re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:08pmWho the hell is Susie Plaksin???
#58re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:37pm
I also saw Bart as Frump in H2S.
Sutton Foster was out the night I saw the LES MIZ tour, though I can't complain because Diana Kaarina (sp?) was outstanding.
I also saw Leslie Kritzer in URINETOWN on tour as Little Becky Two Shoes. Even in a minor role, she was hilarious. I loved watching her because she was always in character and gave funny reactions and such.
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FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#59re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:55pmI was lucky enough to see Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead in December 2005. It featured America Ferrara before she started work on a little series called Ugly Betty.
K8eeyore
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/04
#60re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 2:38pmChester Gregory (TARZAN) went to my college. I saw him play Jesus in SUPERSTAR, and damn, he was good!
#61re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 2:42pm
I also saw Leslie Kritzer in URINETOWN on tour as Little Becky Two Shoes. Even in a minor role, she was hilarious.
Same here! She actually took over partway through the SF run because the original Becky had hurt herself during rehearsals (previews?). I saw the swing the first time, then Leslie the next two times. Hysterical.
#62re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 2:43pm
Jude Law and his willy in "Indiscretions"
Karen Ziemba in a dreadful musical called "Prizes" the year before she became a hit in "And the World Goes 'Round"
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#63re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 3:04pm
Sarah Jessica Parker in "Annie"
Christian Slater in "Merlin"
Cynthia Nixon as Honey in "Who's Afraid of Viriginia Woolfe" (L.A.)
Christine Ebersole in "Camelot"
#64re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 3:23pm
Jenn Gambatese and Gavin Creel in Fame (1999)
Andy Karl as Rum Tum Tugger in the tour of Cats (1997)
Heather Parcells, Tony Yazbeck and Juliana Hansen in the tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie (2003)
#65re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 4:07pm
I didn't see them myself, but a friend of mine was in A Christmas Carol at the Omaha Community Playhouse with John Lloyd Young when he was about 10 (she just showed me a picture of him in the show the other day, too). The same friend's family also housed Norbert Leo Butz when he did the A Christmas Carol tour with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan. He was 23 and playing Scrooge -- youngest one they've ever had!
I saw Ava Gaudet on the RENT tour, though I don't know that she's actually "famous". Scott Porter in Altar Boyz and now he's on Friday Night Lights and doing movies... he's also from Omaha! Hooray for locals making it big, huh?
That's all I can think of right now.
#66re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 4:11pm
Catherine Zeta Jones-
42nd Street
The Pyjama Game
Street Scene
Oliver! -i was in this production with her.
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#67re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 4:40pm
Georgia Engel in Hello Dolly (with both Phyllis Diller and Ethel Merman on Broadway)
Valerie Harper in the chorus of Wildcat.
Some of the names in this thread are silly ... Heather Parcells is not famous, Barrett Foa is not famous. Broadway "fans" may know who they are, but they are not famous by any stretch of the imagination.
Updated On: 8/28/07 at 04:40 PM
Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#68re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 7:49pm
Jenn Gambatese, Gavin Creel, Titus Burgess. I would have to look in some of my playbills to see who else I have seen.
Memory fails!!
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#69re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 8:34pmWhen i went to visit my aunt, she brought me to a production of Peter Pan with Laura Osnes in the title role
Studmuffn520
Featured Actor Joined: 11/8/06
#70re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/28/07 at 8:52pm
mine arent very good lol and i dont even know if the first two really even count but ive seen
will chase in aida
lisa brescia in aida
gerard canonico in les mis and prince and the pauper
thats all i got=/
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#71re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 10/12/07 at 3:34pmSaw Colleen Dewhurst in 1957 in a summer stock production of Witness for the Prosecution. Also, John Travolta and Treat Willilams in Over Here in '73 or '74. Peter O'Toole in The Merchant of Venice in 1960 at Stratford and Brian Bedford same place in 1957 in Cymbeline.
#72re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 10/12/07 at 4:31pmSherie Rene Scott as Sally Simpson in Tommy.
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#73re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 10/12/07 at 5:08pmUpdated On: 2/29/08 at 05:08 PM
postergirl
Leading Actor Joined: 3/13/07
#74re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 10/12/07 at 11:57pm
John Travolta in "Bus Stop" in summer stock with Anita Gillette.
Bob Martin in Second City
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